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After Biden appointed an emergency board to help resolve the labor dispute, rail workers warn: “We have the ability to stop the trains from moving.”

As a national rail shutdown over mounting labor disputes looms in the US, it’s worth asking how we got here from the folks who know best—the workers themselves.

Rapid job growth and increased worker bargaining power are very good—there’s a whole lot more progressive policy that could be done.

Often cast as villains in the Northwest’s environmental battles, timber workers have a connection to the forest that goes far beyond jobs.

Ten years ago, Chicago teachers modeled what a militant fight for public education looks like by walking off the job. A decade later, the legacy of social justice unionism continues to animate the U.S. labor movement.

Protesting understaffing and low pay, Minnesota nurses hit the picket line in a “fight for our very profession.”

The engineering degree to defense industry pipeline.

The surge in U.S. labor organizing now includes minor league baseball players, who are agitating for higher pay and better protections on and off the field.

As Alabama miners fight for their rights, Democratic leaders are largely absent.

King believed that a multiracial working-class movement was required to overcome the failings of capitalism.

Criminal justice reform advocates in Los Angeles have amassed some impressive victories—laying out a model for reducing incarceration and providing care.

While employees at Amazon and Starbucks win historic unionization campaigns, the “populist” wing of the GOP has been noticeably silent.

A Black activist reflects on intergenerational trauma, community, and coming to terms with death in movement building.

When a crisis occurs, the private sector often uses it as a distraction to push through its own agenda.

How a TV justice extends contempt for the poor.

Despite the fact that retailers and political figures are calling for its removal, history might be too prominent for the extinction of the Confederate flag.

In 1999, Barbara Ehrenreich reflected on how the widening of the wealth gap thwarted the original goals of the feminist movement.

Gender oppression shaped the notion of "idle women's talk."

Rapid job growth and increased worker bargaining power are very good—there’s a whole lot more progressive policy that could be done.